- Botany, Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Botany in fiction, Adventure and adventurers
A thirteen-year-old boy escapes from slaughter by the Boxers in China and joins forces with an English botanist and her escort, traveling with them to Tibet where the power of Buddhist monks transforms the lives of all of them.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Peter Dickinson
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf, Puffin, Gollancz
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140313574
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